[BES Friends] CORRECTION & Coming events

[Stephen Meskin]

AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION TO A NEWSLETTER DATE
End of Season Picnic, Monday May 26 at noon in Parkville.  Contact BES 
by phone or email for directions.

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OTHER COMING EVENTS
May 11 Platform: "Messages of Difference" by Alan Klein, Trainer/Consultant
     As the South Pacific song goes, "You've got to be taught..." In our 
youth we are bombarded with messages from many sources, some 
intentional, some subliminal. We will explore the messages that we 
received about people who are like us and people who are unlike us, as 
well as their impact on our lives today.*
     Alan Klein* is a trainer, consultant, coach, facilitator, 
administrator and teacher. He specializes in the areas of leadership 
development, valuing diversity, team building and communication. Alan 
also provides organizations and other groups with support and 
facilitation in the use of large group methodologies. Throughout this 
work, he emphasizes self-awareness as a vehicle for enhanced competency 
and effectiveness in interpersonal situations. He was elected to 
membership in the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science in 1997 
and currently serves on its Board of Directors

May 18 Poetry Group 9:30 am,  Newcomers' Meeting 12:30 pm

May 18 Platform: "2008: Common Ground: The Earth as Humanist Icon" by 
Hugh Taft-Morales, Ethical Culture Leader-in-Training
     Reflecting on the first photograph of the earth taken from beyond 
the moon, Archibald MacLeish wrote in the New York Times that it was an 
image with whose help "man may discover what he really is". It reveals a 
truth that we ignore at our own peril: "To see the earth as we now see 
it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it 
floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on 
that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they 
are truly brothers."
This image, generated by rational science yet emotionally and 
aesthetically inspiring, offers common ground to people of diverse 
philosophical perspectives. Not only does it remind all human brothers 
and sisters of our interconnectedness, it reflects a profound 
philosophical link between beauty and fragility. The image of the earth 
reflects the existential limitations central to human existence, and 
should continue to serve as a humanist icon - an enduring, sacred, 
symbol worthy of spiritual devotion.*
     Hugh Taft-Morales* taught philosophy and history at the Edmund 
Burke School in Washington, D. C., for 19 years. He left teaching in the 
summer of 2006 to train for leadership in Ethical Culture and is in a 
three-year leadership certification program with the Humanist Institute. 
Hugh served on the Board of the Washington Ethical Society from 
2002-2006, and for the last year was president of the Board. He served 
for two three-year terms on the American Philosophical Association 
Committee for Pre-College Instruction. He wrote a booklet entitled "So 
You Want to Teach Pre-Collegiate Philosophy?" published by the APA. In 
1986 he earned a Masters in Philosophy from University of Kent at 
Canterbury, England. He graduated Cum Laude from Yale University in 
1979. He lives in Takoma Park with his wife, Maureen, and has three 
children -- Sean (20), Maya (14), and Justin (12).


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